3D printing woes
I’m fed-up with google Sketchup. It took me hours to get this far: After a lot of wasted time and effort struggling with its awful interface I got something tending…
Oshino Shinobu repaint
Again, no "before" pictures unfortunately. For what I paid for it I was quite pleased with this figure. She came with 2 faces, so the hair is removable and the…
Wolf Girl Miku repaint
I lost the "before" pictures. I swapped the ribbons on her apron with the ones on her socks, I thought it looked better. And I gave her a grey wolf.…
How to electro-engrave metal
You need: a car battery chargerq-tipsa saturated salt solutionan metal object to engravemasking tape (plain adhesive tape works) Steps: Cover the parts of the metal object you don't want to…
Celes Chere figure (polymer clay)
In 2005 I made a 1/20 Celes Chere sculpture (from Final Fantasy VI) for a friend as a birthday gift. The recipient liked the "traditional" Celes but not the Amano…
Mizuno Ami figure repaint
Feeling too sick to be productive, I cleaned up another figure. Here's one depicting my favorite senshi, that unfortunately had blue paint smudges in various locations: Paint on the "flesh"…
Nagato Yuki swimsuit version
I was lucky to get my hands on this - for a 7 year old figure this is really well done. The sculpt is attractive, the painting was expertly done…
Misaka 9982 figure
I mostly prefer figures that are interesting sculpture-wise, but I couldn't resist this one for capturing the character so well as she's clinging to her Gekota badge: Otherwise it's a…
Another Asuka figure repaint
This figure is big! Unfortunately I misplaced the "before" pictures. It wasn't *bad* aside from some really noticeable paint smudges, anyway I decided to make it better, and this is…
Asuka figure repaint
I've complained in the past about "crappy Chinese knockoff PVC figures", but I feel I need to set the record straight; non-knockoff straight-from-Japan figures can also be crappy (and probably…